Eureka Reporter | 1906-08-03 | Page 10 | Old Peach Trees

OLD PEACH TREES has been done with proof of what can be done to make them productive it Is a fact well known to many horticultural ti scientists that old peach trees may be brought back to a state of vigor by severely cutting back the trees and thus keeping them out ot fruiting for two or three seasons it this cutting bad Is done in a year when all the fruit buds have been killed by the cold the loss of time Is reduced by one ear some varie EFFECT OF CUTTING baab OLD PEACH TREE ties of trees are greatly injured by being cut bach severely but not so the peach peach trees develop wood with great rapidity and so quickly overcome effects of severe cutting i bach many of the old peach trees on our farms could be made to bear good crops again by being cut back in our illustration we show the re suits of cutting back as practiced on an old peach tree at the ohio expert station this tree illustrated in the corner of our illustration was al ready an old tree and waning in vigor when the station purchased the ground on which it stands in the spring of 1905 it was severely cut back and left the cutting back was effective in starting new growths and in the fall of the same year it looked as shown in the cut to all appearances it has renewed its youth